Damages for Mental Suffering Resulting from Mistreatment of a Cadaver

Syftet med studien är att studera hur cheferna upplever och arbetar med kompetensbaserad rekrytering samt i vilken utsträckning de upplever att de uppnått förväntat resultat. Vi har analyserat en kompetensbaserad rekryteringsmodell (KBR-modell) utifrån två teoretiska perspektiv på organisationen; det humanistiska och det strukturella, samt studerat spänningen dem emellan rörande det standardiserade rekryteringssystemet. Kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts vid vår empiriinsamling. Slutsatserna visar att cheferna upplever kombinationen KBR-modellen och stödet från HR-konsulterna på ett tillfredsställande sätt eftersom KBR-modellen underlättar rekryteringsarbetet, men att de ändå upplever att de har tillräckligt med handlingsutrymme. Samtliga upplever att de uppnått det önskade resultatet "rätt man på rätt plats" genom en kombination av stöd från HR-konsulten och användning av KBR-modellen. Organisationen kombinerar bra rutiner vid rekryteringen med ett systematiskt verktyg och HR-funktion, samt en kombination av de humanistiska och strukturella perspektiven. Slutligen är det rimligt att anta att främst det strukturella perspektivet speglas i organisationens rekryteringsarbete

A Nation of Informants: Reining In Post-9/11 Coercion of Intelligence Informants

This article challenges the adequacy of the existing legal and regulatory framework governing informant recruitment and coercion practices to protect fundamental rights, informed by the Muslim-American experience. It looks at the growing law enforcement practice of recruiting informants among Muslim-American communities for intelligence gathering purposes. Although the coercion of law-abiding individuals to provide information to federal law enforcement agencies for intelligence gathering purposes implicates significant rights, it is left unregulated. Existing, albeit limited, restraints on the government agents’ ability to coerce individuals to provide information either assume a criminal context, or are driven by historical concerns over FBI corruption. As the U.S. government engages in widespread surveillance of Muslim-American communities, it relies heavily on recruiting members of those communities as informants. These individuals are targeted for their community ties, or their religious or linguistic knowledge—and not because of any nexus they might have to criminal activity. This has led FBI agents to search for coercive levers outside of the criminal process and that have far fewer procedural protections—namely, immigration and watch-listing authorities. Thus, existing protections that have evolved to prevent civil rights violations in the criminal informant context—limited as those protections may be—do not apply. In light of these expanding authorities and the significant rights at stake, this article makes several proposals that would regulate the recruitment of intelligence informants

Job Satisfaction Management System: Approach on Information Technology Professionals

This paper proposed a job satisfaction management model titled Job Satisfaction Management System (JSMS). The four major components of the JSMS outlined are: IT professionals, Factors involved in job satisfaction, Management commitment and Expected Outcome

Generating And Validating A Global Framework Of Pharmaceutical Development Goals And Corresponding Indicators

INTRODUCTION: The imperative of meeting current global healthcare challenges requires advancing pharmacy practice in a global context. This research aimed to design and develop a valid and consented set of global goal-oriented pharmaceutical development frameworks and corresponding indicators to support and guide systematic practice transformation needed to meet the national and global pharmaceutical healthcare demands of changing population demographics. METHODS: Part 1 of the research project This research used a mixed-methods approach. A series of international expert focus groups were conducted to evaluate the acceptance of a set of proposed global pharmaceutical development goals (PDGs). This was followed by recruiting global pharmacy leaders who participated in a modified nominal group technique to further develop the content of the initial PDGs framework. In a subsequent study, a qualitative modified Delphi approach was employed by a panel of international experts to ensure the credibility and content validity of the framework outputs and generate consensus on a final matrix of the proposed global PDGs. Part 2 of the research project A content analysis of the relevant collated data followed by a Delphi process of an international Expert Group was performed to identify and establish initial consensus on potential indicators aligned with the published PDGs framework. Delphi method’s outcomes were used to conduct a global cross-sectional online questionnaire to assess and validate the relevancy and availability of the proposed indicators. RESULTS: Part 1 of the research project A globally validated and consented set of systematic PDGs (systematic framework) for development comprising 21 PDGs along with their descriptions and mechanisms to shape and guide global pharmacy practice transformation. Part 2 of the research project A set of correlated and validated transnational evidence-based indicators that will monitor national-level progress and measure the advancement of the 21 PDGs worldwide across workforce/education, practice, and pharmaceutical science. CONCLUSION: A systematic and globally consented set of PDGs, along with evidence-based progress indicators, was generated to monitor the sustainable advancement of pharmaceutical practice and support a needs-based roadmap for pharmacy practice transformation

NFV Orchestrator Placement for Geo-Distributed Systems

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) developed Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) framework. Within that framework, NFV orchestrator (NFVO) and Virtualized Network Function (VNF) Manager (VNFM) functional blocks are responsible for managing the lifecycle of network services and their associated VNFs. However, they face significant scalability and performance challenges in large-scale and geo-distributed NFV systems. Their number and location have major implications for the number of VNFs that can be accommodated and also for the overall system performance. NFVO and VNFM placement is therefore a key challenge due to its potential impact on the system scalability and performance. In this paper, we address the placement of NFVO and VNFM in large-scale and geo-distributed NFV infrastructure. We provide an integer linear programming formulation of the problem and propose a two-step placement algorithm to solve it. We also conduct a set of experiments to evaluate the proposed algorithm.Comment: This paper has been accepted for presentation in 16th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2017

The distortion of the meaning of bride wealth: significance for the evolution of living customary law in southern Nigeria

Includes bibliographical references.Nigeria’s Constitution does not provide for the interaction of the received English law, statutory law, and customary law. Bride wealth, an important aspect of customary law in southeast Nigeria, symbolises the bride’s worth to her family, as well as a bond between the bride and groom’s families. The changes introduced by colonial rule distorted its meaning to the extent that people disobeyed legislation enacted to curb excessive bride wealth. This disobedience is traceable to socio-economic and cultural factors founded on people’s survival needs. This disobedience has great significance for the evolution of living customary law, legal pluralism, and success of development projects in Nigeria. It signifies that development policies should take into consideration the living customary laws of people at the receiving end of development projects. At a broader level, it also signifies participation of local communities indecision-making that affects them. The thesis suggests that implementation of wide ranging consultations during the law-making process will strengthen democratic institutions in Nigeria

Secularism: African Literature in Relation to Religious Traditions

The issue of secularism in the African environment has been an age-long debate This has attracted series of arguments and counter-arguments Such controversies are expected given the religious and philosophical phenomenon and the African writers portrayal of religious role in African society This paper s goal is to assess the views of several African writers on the issue of secularism on the religious and philosophical themes of their writing The major objective is to provide knowledge and tool to enable contributions of literature to African Traditional Religion Christianity and Islam The focus of the paper is on the African spiritual transformation which will constitute the main structure of the black race with it connection to general existenc